Bad news for Newt Gingrich: he isn’t going to win the Republican nomination. He’s still in the race and, yes, he’ll be able to continue for a while longer, but he’s as good as finished nonetheless.

You see, February will without a doubt be Romney’s month. It’s likely that he will win every caucus / primary in it. He will win today in Nevada, and the other states will in all likelihood follow suit.

The result? Romney’s victory will be considered inevitable. And that is all that he needs to wrap this thing up.

Of course that does not mean that he will not face any problems in the weeks and months ahead. He will. Gingrich will continue to trash him. He will have to defend himself against all sorts of allegations. No doubt about it.

But that will not change the game in any significant way.| MORE ›

At last Thursday’s Ames debate, there was a particular word missing: jobs. Sure, the candidates touched on the economy a bit. But mostly it seemed the debate strayed into other (arguably less important) issues, such as whether Iran should have nukes.| MORE ›

Former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, will officially announce his candidacy next week Thursday. He will do so in New Hampshire.

As the Washington Post explains, that’s quite telling:

Three years ago, Romney tried to run the table of early-voting states — spending millions of dollars in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina only to lose all three and, with them, the nomination.| MORE ›

David Frum has written a rather interesting op-ed for The Guardian in which he attempts to explain (probably to foreigners) what kind of people take Donald Trump seriously.

He writes:

You are 62 years old. White. Go to church on Easter Sunday. You make a good living: $75,000 a year in a strong company. Your wife earns another $45,000.| MORE ›

I’m satisfied. The 2011 budget will be cut by $39 billion, the issues of funding Planned Parenthood and Obamacare will be put up as single-issue votes, and the government won’t shutdown. Feels good, doesn’t it?

Actually, not really. American is still facing deficits and debts in the trillions, and the negotiations for this year’s budget didn’t do much to combat those.| MORE ›

So where do Republicans stand after the election? From where I’m sitting, in a fairly good place. If they had to win only one chamber, I’d rather them win the House. Obviously, the Senate would have just been the icing on the cake, but being in control of the Senate these days is not all it’s cracked up to be (as I’ll cover in a bit).  Here’s a few reasons why I think the new power structure is good for them:| MORE ›

The Republican National Committee just released a new ad video, in which the GOP just about destroys President Obama – which is, obviously, a good thing.

In it, the RNC challenges Obama’s economic decision and record over the last two-and-a-half years, reports Wake up America!

Transcript (via WuA, with some slight corrections):| MORE ›

No, no, don’t take that as an endorsement. It’s merely a summary of what Andrew Sullivan argues in his latest post on Sarah Palin:

Palin has been airbrushed out of the GOP race by the entire scene – from Politico to National Review.| MORE ›

Donald Trump believes that he’s fit to be president. Why, you ask? Because he knows so much about foreign policy or economics? Or perhaps because he has a lot of experience working in the public sector? No, because he’s rich.

“I’m a much bigger business man and have (a) much, much bigger net worth.| MORE ›

The second session of the 111th Congress is over, and I’m still getting a little mixed up in the alphabet soup of bills and treaties that were just passed, shot down, repealed, or ratified. DADT, CR, DREAM, START, TAX. Actually, that last one is not really an acronym, though I think “Trusting Americans eXasperated,” or something like that, works very well.| MORE ›

Republicans take New Jersey by 5 points.

Republicans take Virginia by 18.

NY 23:  Owens 49, Hoffman 45, Scozzafava 6 – with precincts still reporting.

But what is the real news??

It was no surprise that the GOP took back the state of Virginia, what is a surprise is the massive 18 point margin. This amounts to 34 points of movement away from Democrats  in Virginia since 2008.| MORE ›